| ID | 144248 |
| Title Proper | Personal Protective Equipment in the humanitarian governance of Ebola |
| Other Title Information | between individual patient care and global biosecurit |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Pallister-Wilkins, Polly |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This article focuses on the use of Personal Protective Equipment in humanitarianism. It takes the recent Ebola outbreak as a case through which to explore the role of objects in saving individual lives and protecting populations. The argument underlines the importance of PPE in mediating between individual patient care and biosecurity. In addition it questions the preoccupation with technical fixes; challenges dominant perceptions about the subject of humanitarianism being the victims of disaster; traces the production of a particular politics of life; and explores the individualisation of risk and concomitant processes of labour discipline in the everyday lives of humanitarian workers. |
| `In' analytical Note | Third World Quarterly Vol. 37, No.3; Mar 2016: p.507-523 |
| Journal Source | Third World Quarterly Vol: 37 No 3 |
| Key Words | Technology ; Humanitarianism ; Biosecurity ; Biomedicine ; Ebola ; Objects |